Is CITY OF FAIRFIELD's water safe to drink?
CITY OF FAIRFIELD has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. 3,005 people get their water from it, across 1,916 connections.
CITY OF FAIRFIELD's record against the rest of the country
25 total violations and 4 health-based ones put CITY OF FAIRFIELD at the 68th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,154 of 12,903.
How CITY OF FAIRFIELD compares within TX
TX's 1,633 covered systems average 6.7 health-based violations each; CITY OF FAIRFIELD carries 4, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF FAIRFIELD is from 2028-05-01 (health-based: 2027-07-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF FAIRFIELD's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is CITY OF FAIRFIELD's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF FAIRFIELD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,154th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.